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5 months ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / IMS Image Copy 4 Future consideration

Backup for IMS Directories and BSDS - have flexibility to utilize GDGs and set the BACKUP HLQ (with IMSID being added).

We currently backup our IMS Catalog using the following naming standard and GDG's. IMG2*2.IC1.DFSCD000.DFSCD01A <where * is the IMS environment suffix>IMG2*2.IC1.DFSCD000.DFSCD01A.GxxxV00 Our intent is to backup the IMS Catalog, Directories ...
5 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Installation - Customization 1 Future consideration

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow SCOPE=SYSTEM on sysplex wide ENQ

Allow the application to control whether a SYSPLEX ENQ call is SCOPE=SYSTEM vs SCOPE=SYSTEMS. This could be on the API call itself, or more likely on the ENQMODEL definition.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console on Z : Make the report path (dwc_workarea) configurable

We'd like to have the report path (dwc_workarea) variable configurable to avoid ICH408I message at the start of the STC (insufficient authority to create /reports directory)The report path is actually a fix path set to /reports. Our site configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add user types for SHUTDOWN commands, similar to user type for STARTUP

It is possible to alter/modify the start of an application by specifying a TYPE of STARTUP in the appropriate phase. An example of this using "WARM" as the type is shown in this KC figure: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWRCJ_4.1.0/c...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Change EQQACTR1 - Show ZIIP instead of PG

The EXIT EQQACTR1 writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics CPU usage is shown. But there isn't any option to see how much zIIP time the job uses. zIIP time is also a SMF record 30 field. It would be useful to show zIIP usage as well i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Future consideration

OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange for z/OS Connect

We would like to have the functionality of Token Exchange in OAuth 2.0 (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8693) directly enabled from z/OS Connect EE. This would enable us to use the 'extension' OAuth Grant Type to execute new token requests usin...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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